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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Audio Timon of Athens Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Love's Labour's Lost Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Julius Caesar Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Romeo and Juliet Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Coriolanus Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 5. Wilde's Plays Sos Eltis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 4. Wilde and Sexuality Sos Eltis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Other Edward Lear's Lines of Flight Matthew Bevis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ux7qcAFR-o
Other Paintings, Parrots and Poetry: The Life of Edward Lear Matthew Bevis https://youtu.be/I5BjGA2rAfo
Video Edward Lear's Vision Matthew Bevis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Edward Lear's Feelings: Weeping Matthew Bevis, Jasmine Jagger https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Edward Lear's Feelings: Laughter Matthew Bevis, Jasmine Jagger https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Edward Lear's Feelings: Disgust Jasmine Jagger, Matthew Bevis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Edward Lear's Feelings: Wonder Jasmine Jagger, Matthew Bevis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Edward Lear's Feelings: Introduction Jasmine Jagger, Matthew Bevis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Essays An Introduction to Teaching Wilfred Owen Lucy Freeland
Other Teaching materials by Lucy Freeland Lucy Freeland
Pictures Portraits of Wilfred Owen Félicia Laude
Pictures Kouni gnani yli yégé Nadia Ogou
Pictures Le masque forestier Mathilde Blondeel
Essays Wilfred Owen: Resonances Brigitte Friant-Kessler
Handout/Transcript Teaching plan
Essays Owen's influence on Carol Ann Duffy Marcy Tanter
Essays "The Poetry is in the Pity": Wilfred Owen and the Memory of the First World War Vincent Trott
Essays 4-11 November 1918: Wilfred Owen and armistice Day in Memory and History Alex Nordlund
Essays Wilfred Owen: The '60s Poet Harry Ricketts
Essays Dulce et Decorum Est: Wilfred Owen’s Latin Elizabeth Vandiver
Essays Wilfred Owen and the Culture of Commemoration Eva Zettelmann
Essays At the Water’s Edge: Wilfred Owen and Water Gerald Dawe
Essays Postcard from the Front Lines of Teaching "Dulce et Decorum Est" Eleanor Mary Boudreau
Essays SHEER: Setting Wilfred Owen to Music Tim Watts
Essays "Smile, Smile, Smile": Wilfred Owen and the Politicians Douglas Kerr
Essays Wilfred Owen and the Modern Elegy Emma Suret
Essays Reliving Wilfred Owen's 'Exposure' in Louis Simpson's World War II Poem 'The Battle' Michael Sarnowski
eBooks The Scarlet Pimpernel / by Baroness Orczy https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3216
eBooks Priestcraft distinguish'd from Christianity. Shewing, I. That wicked priests are the real Antichrists mention'd in Scripture. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4121
eBooks Poems by J. Donaldson, author of The elements of beauty https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4102
eBooks A sentimental journey through France and Italy https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3150
eBooks The poetical calendar: Containing a collection of scarce and valuable pieces of poetry: ... by the most eminent hands. Intended as a supplement to Mr. Dodsley's collection. Written and selected by Francis Fawkes, M. A. and William Woty. In twelve ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5361
eBooks Essays and treatises: on several subjects. By David Hume, Esq; In four volumes. ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3943
eBooks The lives of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland: to the time of Dean Swift. Compiled from ample materials scattered in a variety of books, ... by Mr. Cibber. In four volumes. ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4679
eBooks Reflections on the Revolution in France: and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event. In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris. By the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4152
eBooks The modish wife, a comedy: performed with uninfluenced applause at the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket. To which is prefixed a summary view of the stage, as it has been, is, and ought to be. With biographical anecdotes of Messrs. Mossop, Dexter, Derrick,... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4493
eBooks The invasion: or, a trip to Brighthelmstone. A farce of two acts, as it is performed, with universal applause, at the Theatre-Royal, in Covent-Garden. Written by F. Pilon. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3928
eBooks The answer of Philip Francis, Esq. to the charges exhibited against him, General Clavering, and Colonel Monson: By Sir Elijah Impey, Knight, when at the bar of the House of Commons, on his defence to the Nunducomar charge. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5470
eBooks Ode inscribed to John Howard: Esq. F.R.S. author of "The state of English and foreign prisons." By William Hayley, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4735
eBooks The history of Lady Barton: a novel, in letters, by Mrs. Griffith. In three volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4535
eBooks The Sunday school https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4197
eBooks The lying valet: in two acts. As it is performed gratis, at the theatre in Goodman's-Fields. By D. Garrick. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4028
eBooks The sublime and beautiful of scripture: being essays on select passages of sacred composition. By Courtney Melmoth. In two volumes. [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5080